Written, Oral and Visual Communication: Communicate effectively in writing, orally and/or visually using traditional and/or modern information resources and supporting technology.
Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning: Locate, identify, collect, and organize data in order to thenanalyze, interpret or evaluate it using mathematical skills and/or the scientific method.
Critical Thinking:Differentiate between facts, influences, opinions, and assumptions toreach reasoned and supportable conclusions.
Problem Solving: Recognize and identify the components of a problem or issue, look at itfrom multiple perspectivesand investigate ways to resolve it.
Information Literacy: Formulate strategies to locate, evaluate and apply information from a variety of sources - print and/or electronic.
Multimedia Studies: A.S. and Transfer and Certificate of Achievement and many Skills Certificates
DON'T FORGET TO SAVE!!!
First: Please rank on a scale of 1 to 5 (5=high) - how important each of these general outcomes are to the various parts of their areas in a matrix as follows:
Effective
Communication
Scientific or
Quantitative
Reasoning
Critical
Thinking
Problem
Solving
Information
Literacy
Multimedia Studies
NEXT: Look at what your discipline has written previously about Discipline specific SLOs. How do these compare to each of the general college learning outcomes above? Program Review 2007:
The Multimedia Studies program instructs students with and about new and emerging technologies. However, our primary goal is to train students to be self-learners and strong critical thinkers that can effectively solve problems in an industry that seeks solutions not just to problems, but rather out of necessity of invention for progress. In our department we teach students to approach problem solving by increasing their critical thinking skills?both creative and technical problem solving skills?as preparation for their career objectives. Through a series of sequential courses, the creative and technical skills of each student are expected to progress towards the skills of a professional in their field.
As a result, the MMST program has defined the following five Stages of Success for its students:
Unskilled- Inexperienced, and a very limited ability to solve problems
Novice- Limited skills, minimal experience, and a beginning problem solver
Student- Basic skills, some experience, and can solve average problems
Advanced- Highly skilled, experienced, and can solve difficult problems
Professional- Proficient skills, practiced experience, and can solve complex problems
Examples of the Stages of Success are outlined in the sample MMST 123 Project One Grading Sheet (rubric) attachment. This is for the first project in one of the Core Multimedia Studies courses, MMST 123 Introduction to Multimedia Design. This course focuses on the fundamentals of art making and the creative process while using and learning ?non-traditional? digital tools to complete the assignment.
As defined in the Grading Sheet rubric, the assignment is divided into five areas of assessment, only one of which is technology based. The majority of the criteria are applicable to any design course?following instructions, meeting deadlines, quantity and quality of the finished creative work and the idea. Even the technical assessment is weighted more towards the independence of the organized self-learner?s problem-solving ability for the task at hand vs. the unorganized, unprofessional ?techno-geek.? In this way we can prepare our students for professional interaction with clients, employers, and future technology based upon their self reliance and critical think abilities learned in the Multimedia Studies program.
Our self-assessment goal is to provide each of our students with the appropriate level course to ensure student success and academic persistence to meet their career and academic objectives. The successful outcome of each student is directly related to the number of stages they complete in the Multimedia Studies program, and their pre-existing level before coming to College of Marin. The Multimedia Studies faculty continually re-assesses the content and prerequisites of all MMST courses to appropriately prepare students based upon personal skill levels. The Stages of Success have been developed to address each course and which stage or at what developmental level it should occupy. Each project criterion is based upon the stage of the course, and the presumed skill level of the student and outlines as our Course Level Stages of Success.
--- MMST Problem Solving and Critical Thinking SLO (from 2005) Where does this SLO fit in with the general ones?
In our department we teach students to approach solving problems by increasing their creative and technical problem solving skills as preparation for their career objectives. Through a series of sequential courses, the creative and technical skills of each student are expected to progress towards the skills of a professional in their field.
Think about how these programmatic SLOs relate to the College Learning Outcomes above. Feel free to edit, expand or change them. Try to make a program SLO for each College Learning Outcome with scores of 3 or higher on the matrix.
Multimedia Studies
College Learning Outcomes:
Links to each sub-section
Multimedia Studies: CTE_M_MMSTList of degrees and certificates in each area
Multimedia Studies: A.S. and Transfer and Certificate of Achievement and many Skills CertificatesDON'T FORGET TO SAVE!!!
First: Please rank on a scale of 1 to 5 (5=high) - how important each of these general outcomes are to the various parts of their areas in a matrix as follows:Communication
Quantitative
Reasoning
Thinking
Solving
Literacy
Program Review 2007:
Program Review 2009-2010:
The Multimedia Studies program instructs students with and about new and emerging technologies. However, our primary goal is to train students to be self-learners and strong critical thinkers that can effectively solve problems in an industry that seeks solutions not just to problems, but rather out of necessity of invention for progress. In our department we teach students to approach problem solving by increasing their critical thinking skills?both creative and technical problem solving skills?as preparation for their career objectives. Through a series of sequential courses, the creative and technical skills of each student are expected to progress towards the skills of a professional in their field.
As a result, the MMST program has defined the following five Stages of Success for its students:
Examples of the Stages of Success are outlined in the sample MMST 123 Project One Grading Sheet (rubric) attachment. This is for the first project in one of the Core Multimedia Studies courses, MMST 123 Introduction to Multimedia Design. This course focuses on the fundamentals of art making and the creative process while using and learning ?non-traditional? digital tools to complete the assignment.
As defined in the Grading Sheet rubric, the assignment is divided into five areas of assessment, only one of which is technology based. The majority of the criteria are applicable to any design course?following instructions, meeting deadlines, quantity and quality of the finished creative work and the idea. Even the technical assessment is weighted more towards the independence of the organized self-learner?s problem-solving ability for the task at hand vs. the unorganized, unprofessional ?techno-geek.? In this way we can prepare our students for professional interaction with clients, employers, and future technology based upon their self reliance and critical think abilities learned in the Multimedia Studies program.
Our self-assessment goal is to provide each of our students with the appropriate level course to ensure student success and academic persistence to meet their career and academic objectives. The successful outcome of each student is directly related to the number of stages they complete in the Multimedia Studies program, and their pre-existing level before coming to College of Marin. The Multimedia Studies faculty continually re-assesses the content and prerequisites of all MMST courses to appropriately prepare students based upon personal skill levels. The Stages of Success have been developed to address each course and which stage or at what developmental level it should occupy. Each project criterion is based upon the stage of the course, and the presumed skill level of the student and outlines as our Course Level Stages of Success.
--- MMST Problem Solving and Critical Thinking SLO (from 2005) Where does this SLO fit in with the general ones?
In our department we teach students to approach solving problems by increasing their creative and technical problem solving skills as preparation for their career objectives. Through a series of sequential courses, the creative and technical skills of each student are expected to progress towards the skills of a professional in their field.
Think about how these programmatic SLOs relate to the College Learning Outcomes above. Feel free to edit, expand or change them. Try to make a program SLO for each College Learning Outcome with scores of 3 or higher on the matrix.